TVIX News and Press, VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Short-Term ETN From 03/18/19

It's Party Time! The party is running at full swing. YTD returns: Oil: United States Oil ( USO ) +26% Nasdaq 100: Invesco QQQ Trust ( QQQ ) +16% Small Caps: iShares Russell 2000 ETF ( IWM ) +16% MLPs: Alerian MLP ETF ( AMLP ) +16% REITs: Vanguard Real Estate ETF ( VNQ ) +15% ...

The recent U.S. equity rally has coincided with a drop in volatility. But can that continue? Russ discusses. While the equity rally seems to have at least temporarily stalled, stocks remain near three-month highs. The rebound in equity prices has been driven by a sharp and relentless bou...

Fundamentals tend to drive my opinion of markets. I have been trading commodities and other assets since the early 1980s and have found that supply and demand factors often uncover compelling opportunities in markets across all asset classes. When it comes to technical analysis, I never discou...

Memories often run short in markets. Since the week of December 24, stocks had taken off to the upside, and the fear and uncertainty that gripped the equity arena at the end of 2018 has faded into the markets rearview mirror. While stocks have climbed over the past ten weeks, many of the iss...

US equities have regained the top of their October-December trading range. In the middle of that dramatic move is a much-discussed yet seldom observed market phenomenon: The nearly unblemished V of a waterfall decline and immediate recovery. As traders (those on the long side, at least) heave ...

I publish once a month the drifts of major leveraged ETFs on a trailing month and year. After the last issue , a reader asked if I could write a post on long-term drifts. Here it is, with calculations on 3 and 7 years. Only the biotechnology ETFs have disappeared from my usual list in a 7-yea...

By Doug Kramer, Co-Head of Quantitative & Multi-Asset Class Investments, Hakan Kaya, PhD, Portfolio Manager, Risk Parity Our volatility models indicate that a return to the low-vol of 2017 is highly unlikely. With investor psychology recently swinging from fourth-quarter despair to...

On January 23, 2019, I wrote an article titled “ Prepare For A Deep Recession And Bear Market ,” where I noted that a bear market could begin in June of 2019 with a recession in 2020. After climbing for eight straight weeks , the Dow ( DIA ) looks like it is ready to plunge. Do ...

Market Intro CNBC: Friday Close US stock markets ( SPY , DIA , QQQ , IWM ) are apparently less nervous about problematic economic data (e.g. retail sales) than are Asian markets ( AAXJ ), at least if you believe the headlines. Spot Vix fell a full eight percent on Friday, as hopes...

Market Intro Econoday CNBC: 11:05AM EST There can be little doubt of the particular cause for Thursday morning's decline on this occasion: retail sales ( XLY , XRT ) data came in very weak, and neither weather nor the government shutdown are likely to weigh too heavily as the main i...